Charisma magazine capitalizes on the heightened head-turning (or link-clicking) nature of the word mosque to report that Zanzibar has a problem too! Government officials on the 99% Muslim island off the coast of Tanzania have successfully prevented a church from being built. Instead, they opted for a mosque.

That Miller, who supports abortion and gay rights, found common ground with Robertson on Bush’s war on terror illustrates the political power of Islamophobia for the GOP. In many ways, it has become the glue that anti-Communism used to be: a demon that fundamentalist Christians and white ethnic voters from outside the Bible Belt (Reagan Democrats used to be the term for them) can both agree to curse.